...relevance of its "neglect ... of Rime" that "is to be esteemed as an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to Heroic Poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of Rimeing" (preface to Paradise Lost). By no means confined to the representational content of the poem,...

...producing his own poem without rime, Milton was presenting an example for emulation, "the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming."67 As for chivalric romance, its "chief maistry" had, he mockingly charged, been to dissect...

...so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it rather is to be esteemed an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming." The belligerent tone of this manifesto is explainable on several counts. Milton was always...

...wretched matter and lame meter." Milton argues that his poem is "an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming" (Poetical Works, 21 1). Both Milton's and Dryden's comments suggest the specificity with which aesthetic...

...blank verse as opposed to rhyme. Milton describes his act of poetic intervention as 'an example set ... of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming' (Campbell, 1990, p. 148). Rhyme is the bondage of royalty. Language isn't decorative. lt's where action...

...describing his choice of blank verse as a political decision: it was to serve as an exemplary instance of 'ancient liberty recovered to Heroic Poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of Rhyming'. Milton's note, indeed, may well have been a reply to Dryden, who, in the dedication to his play, The...

...and bondage: This neglect then of Rime ... is to be esteem'd an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to Heroic Poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of Riming.50 The tone is aggressive,5i a firm declaration of independence by a true son of Vergil and...

...so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it rather is to be esteemed an example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming. :' Both Edward Young and William Cowper would seize on this association between rhyme and "bondage"...

...verse (that is, his own special style) so that his technique would permit an "ancient liberty [to be] recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming." What goes unnoticed frequently is that rhyme, which seems to metamorphose language from within, depends...

...French theory and contemporary fashion, he offered his epic as "a example set, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of rhyming"—cited from John Carey and Alistair Fowler (eds.), The Poems of John Milton (London: Longmans,...